nonnegotiable

Example Sentences

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All of this makes medical care a nonnegotiable, highly expensive commodity.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

Yet “most expenses related to housing are fixed or nonnegotiable, including mortgage payments, water & sewer charges, insurance, fuel, and electricity, leaving maintenance as the largest single category of discretionary operating costs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Hochul’s embrace of nuclear power acknowledges what grid operators have long understood: firmly reliable, zero-emission baseload capacity is a nonnegotiable in order to achieve decarbonization and affordability in energy.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

They spend an average of 3.7 hours per week on necessary caregiving, like changing diapers; dads without a college degree do just 1.9 hours per week of that kind of nonnegotiable labor.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

But he did insist, in nonnegotiable language, that it was “a necessary evil.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis